1979 Pontiac Firebird

1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am â?" White with Red Interior, 6.6L V8, T-Tops, and a Full Option Load Why This Car Is Special The 1979 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am sits at a crossroads in American automotive history. By this point, the second-generation Firebird â?" introduced for 1970 and running through 1981 â?" had become the best-selling sports car in the United States, outselling even the Corvette. Pontiac moved more than 211,000 Firebirds in 1979 alone, a record for the nameplate that still stands. The Trans Am variant was the performance flagship, and the 1979 model year arrived on a wave of cultural momentum that included the massive success of Smokey and the Bandit in 1977, which put the black-and-gold Trans Am on every poster and bedroom wall in the country. This particular car, however, was not ordered in black and gold.